Great Blue (Joker123): why the help screen prints every pay twice
Joker123's Great Blue help screen lists each symbol's pay with and without the orca. How to read that second column, and three small wins checked against it.
Cartridge label
- Reels
- 5 x 3
- Lines
- 25
- Wild
- Orca, doubles any win it completes
- Scatter
- Pearl in a pink shell
- Free spins
- Up to 33, multiplier up to x15 (help screen)
Controls
- LINES
- Fixed display of 25
- PLAY - / +
- Stake per line; 0.01 GP gives TOTAL PLAY 0.25 GP
- SPIN
- One spin; hold for auto spin
Great Blue on Joker123 looks like the Playtech original: pale blue water, bubbles, sea creatures and glassy card letters. What sets this build apart is its help screen, which prints each pay twice: once plain and once with the wild. That second column explains most of the game.
The screen in one pass
Five reels, three rows, 25 lines. Numbered tabs run down both sides; the left reads 4, 2, 24, 20, 16, 10, 1, 11, 17, 13, 21, 3, 5. A winning line is drawn in a coloured stroke, and the symbols on it briefly go blank while the win is counted.
The panel is Joker123's usual five boxes: LINES 25, PLAY, TOTAL PLAY, WIN and SPIN, with GP as the unit. The MAJOR, RANDOM and MINOR jackpot meters sit across the top.
The paytable with its WILD column
The orca is the wild. It substitutes for everything except the scatter and doubles all wins it is part of. Instead of leaving you to do the maths, the help screen shows both figures:
| Symbol | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 with wild |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shark, turtle | 750 | 125 | 25 | 1500 |
| Yellow striped fish | 400 | 100 | 20 | 800 |
| Seahorse, starfish | 250 | 75 | 15 | 500 |
| A, K | 150 | 50 | 10 | 300 |
| Q, J, 10, 9 | 100 | 25 | 5 | 200 |
Shark, turtle, 10 and 9 also pay 2 for two of a kind (4 with the wild). Five orcas on a line pay 10,000, the top figure on the screen.
The pearl shell scatter pays 500, 20, 5 or 2 for five, four, three or two anywhere, and the centre panel promises "up to 33 free spins, up to x15 multiplier".
Three wins, checked
All three screenshots are at 0.01 a line.
- Two sharks from reel 1 plus a second line: 0.06 in total. Two sharks alone are worth 0.02.
- A starfish line that runs through a wild tile on reel 3: 0.15.
- An orca on reel 3 completing a line: 0.60, the biggest of the three and the clearest sign that the doubling matters.
The exact line-by-line split is not shown, so treat these as a sense of scale.
Pacing
At 0.25 GP a spin, the base game pays small and often. The wins that matter come from the orca and from the free spins, and both are rare. Pick a spin count before you start (80 spins is 20 GP) and stop at it.
The same game with other panels: ACE333, LPE88 and Play8oy's Grand Blue. See the Joker123 overview, or get a Joker123 game ID.
Troubleshooting and questions
What does the WILD column on the Great Blue paytable mean?
It is the pay for the same symbol count when an orca is part of the line. The orca doubles all wins it substitutes in, so every figure in that column is twice the normal one.
How do the Great Blue free spins work?
The help screen only says up to 33 free spins and up to x15. In the Playtech original, three or more pearls give 8 free spins at x2 and you then pick shells that add spins or multiplier; this lobby's version looks the same but the pick screen is not in these screenshots.
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